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Replacing composite key with surrogate

I have the following table that has a couple of million rows in it and is 99% fragmented virtually all of the time. My plan was to insert a IDENTITY field as a surrogate key to replace the current ...
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How can an identity primary key index become fragmented?

From what I understand about index fragmentation, this should not be possible. The cases I have found in my databases are non-clustered. Example: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ClaimLineInstitutional] ADD ...